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Trivia Quiz # 13 - 12 September 2002

 

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1. What is the only land area on earth that's not part of and doesn't belong to one country?

2. What planet is named after the Roman goddess of love?

3. What do you call a young Turkey?

4. Geologists are scientists that study Earth; what are scientists that study the moon called?

5. Who said "Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever." and "History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon." ?

6. Which body organ produces hydrochloric acid?

 

7. What do Scientists believe comprises approximately 90 to 99 percent of all matter in the  universe?

 

8. In cooked poultry, what is indicated by bones that have dark splotches?
 
 
 

9. A car traveling at a constant speed of 60 miles per hour would take longer than 48 million years to reach the nearest star to Earth (other than our Sun). What is this Star?

10. Who said: "If I want your opinion, I'll give it to you." and "You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone." ?

11. When alcoholic beverages were served/sold in Pints and Quarts, what expression meant to be careful how much you drank ?

 

12. What is the oldest continuously occupied settlement in the continental United States?
 

13. What was the D-Day invasion password?

14. The higher the fat content in a cheese, the faster what happens to it?

15. In music, three or more tones sounded simultaneously is called what?

16. What is the largest body organ?

17. Over 50% of all people fantasize more often about what than sex?
 
 
 

18. Who was the oldest member of the Beatles?

 
 
 
 

19. In Australia, the Number 1 topping for pizza is eggs.
In Chile, the favorite topping is mussels and clams.
In the United States, it's pepperoni.
Food & Wine magazine reports that in Japan,
the most popular topping for Domino's pizza is what?

 
 
 
 

20. Who couldn't speak fluently when he was nine,
so his parents thought he might be retarded?

In 1898, he applied for admission to the Munich Technical Institute,
but was turned down on the grounds that he "showed no promise" as a student.
He was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952.